Shanghai officials over the next few days will further restrict access to food and hospitals in the city, the most severe phase of its extended lockdown yet. BBC News has the story.
Commercial food deliveries are not allowed and access to hospitals for all but emergencies must first be approved. Neighbours of COVID-19 cases and others living close by are also being forced into government quarantine facilities. Shanghai is now in its seventh week of city-wide restrictions.
Confirmed cases have fallen significantly from their peak, but authorities have not yet been able to hit the target of what they call “societal zero”, where no cases are reported outside of quarantine facilities.
Despite the tougher measures, Shanghai officials insist that people living in half the city’s districts are now free to leave their homes and walk around.
State media has shown propaganda videos of departing medical workers visiting city landmarks together and taking photographs.
Official notices from local committees of the ruling Communist Party, seen by the BBC, detail several restrictions imposed under what officials call “silent periods” for the next three days. These include only permitting Government food deliveries, not allowing residents to “step out” of their front doors and requiring approval from the committee for anyone other than emergency cases to access hospitals…
The tightened measures come just days after China’s president Xi Jinping re-iterated his commitment to the controversial ‘Zero-Covid’ strategy. In a paper published in the health journal the Lancet earlier this week, senior Chinese health officials said the lockdown would “buy time to vaccinate more people”.
Their comments come after the head of the World Health Organisation called China’s Zero-Covid strategy unsustainable.
“When we talk about Zero-Covid, we don’t think that it’s sustainable, considering the behaviour of the virus now and what we anticipate in the future,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday at a news conference.
The clip was widely shared on Chinese social media before being blocked by censors. More than two years after COVID-19 first emerged here officials figures show around 90% of the population nationwide has been vaccinated. But only 38% of the more vulnerable – those over 60 – in Shanghai have the full protection [sic] of three vaccinations.
Buy time to vaccinate? How much time do they need, if 16 months isn’t enough?
This lockdown thing is really starting to get out of hand…
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full protection by the vaccination?
what protection?
The UK needs a general election once every 2 years and a system for the right to a referendum. To stop the government overreach
The way we are governed needs a complete overhaul. MPs these days seem to be unaccountable and forget they are the public servants, not the other way round. I would like to see MPs limited to maybe one or two terms in parliament and for a wider range of people to become eligible. I would also like to see the break-up of the party system and the business of lobbying and money in politics made illegal with huge fines for breaking the rules. We have to root out the corruption. I would also do the same with the civil service but would retain those who demonstrate integrity, honesty, etc. I wouldn’t want any fanatics in there. Anyone seeking power needs to be assessed by independents and those assessing them need to be chosen or voted for by the public if possible. Some of that is probably impossible but something needs to happen as we can’t go on like this. Maybe stop the FPTP system is a start.
BBC is the LAST place I would look for any information about ANYTHING. They have proved themselves unworthy of anyone’s trust. Surely there other reliable news sources. Please stop giving this corrupt gov’t and the unre
This is an example of a streak of fanatical zeal in the Chinese nation that’s been seen before. During the cultural revolution and all the other inflicted madness by that utter madmen’s madman Mao, there was, I believe, a famine and they blamed the birds for eating all the seeds so they set to killing birds in their millions, little realising that the insects lost their number one predator and burgeoned like crazy. The Chinese have long followed whatever madman or madwoman has been the strongest and most ruthless and apart from the Tiananmen Square uprising (which has been all but erased from ALL the history books) they meekly obey as if brainwashed. I know this is a very sweeping statement because there are plenty of Chinese people who are not like this but in the main it is true. China is Orwell’s 1984 in action. Our Western governments probably like to think they can do similarly over here but forget there is more revolutionary spirit (hopefully to be re-ignited) in these lands.
“we don’t think its sustainable”
Is that all that man could say?oh treating people worse than Lab rats is ok if its sustainable then?
This if nothing else, this little sentence crystallises exactly the essence of the man and his fellows who work for the WHO and related industries. In other words as long as the stated objective is reached, no matter how ludicrous, no matter how inhuman and cruel are the actions taken to achieve that stupid objective then collateral damage and deaths do not matter, all that is important is that the Objective can be said to have been achieved.
These are not normal functioning humans if they were not working for the WHO they would probably be in prison for murder or other crimes, they are without human compassion or empathy and are completely unfettered by morals or ethics,
Thes are the people Boris Johnson and other world leaders are going to hand over the running of our country to, if the WHO decides there is a pandemic, the definition of which could be applied if they decree that Britain for example is suffering a pandemic of obesity.
How do you think they will solve that problem?… Read more »
A statement lacking all empathy and compassion. This is the man, the puppet rather, that world government’s are giving their power to. The Pandemic Treaty must be resisted at all costs because people like this, acting on Gates’ direction, will have more power than they ever dreamed of.
The Chinese government are bar stewards of the worst order. This is absolutely criminally insane. The entire Chinese government should be locked up in the desert, maybe in the same facilities they locked up thousands of Uighurs in. Where is the worldwide condemnation? Oh yes, I forgot, there isn’t any because our corrupt, imbecilic and evil governments are probably planning something similar, out of China’s playbook, at some point in the future. Well, I’m not playing their games any longer and I would rather die than submit to these evil monsters and live in their dystopian world and I don’t think I’m alone.
“Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”–Rudyard Kipling.
Jeremy Hunt is/was a supporter of zero covid, and this pillock could be our next PM! A dangerous little man
Well, there’s a surprise! Anyone who has been paying attention for the past two and a half years will be aware that this happens everwhere – waves rise, then fall, and there’s no evidence that draconian restrictions make any difference at all to the timing or peak numbers.
Is this really about Covid? Or is it an excuse to effectively starve the West of its commodities. 513 million containers come out of that port and almost all of it heads to the West. The only thing that makes sense, is believing its part of China’s economic war with the West
Yep.
I’ve noticed some media groups are criticising China and their lockdowns…. It wasn’t that long ago that all these media groups were begging to have more stricter lockdowns. I cannot stand the hypocrisy of all of this!
Correct. The world followed China’s lead in early 2020 so it’s a bit rich criticising them now.
God knows what this is doing to the Chinese economy but, practically everything we make uses materials made in China…
“This lockdown thing is really starting to get out of hand…”
“Starting”???
I think it’s all just a cunning plan by the Chinese. They know we know they are a huge threat to world peace, so now they want to lull us into a false sense of superiority by pretending they are moronic brain dead yokels!
This once again shows that COVID is centrally organized (and presumably, centrally organized under heavy Chinese influence) down to the wording of public statements: Buy time to vaccinate more people has been used by UK lockdown advocates since the so-called second wave receded in 2021. They’d still be using that today if they could.
So are “they” looking after our wellbeing? If not, why not?
An Abstract in 4 Key Points:
-Dr. Fauci and a few other senior scientists knew instantly that the discovery of HIV spike inserts within the SAR-CoV-2 viral genome made it almost impossible for the virus to be natural.
-They knew about the Furin cleavage site [FCS], the single biggest genomic contributor to SARS-CoV-2’s ability to become a pandemic virus.
– They suppressed treatments that were already available – including the very fusion inhibitors implicated by the existence of the HIV inserts.
-Much of what has been done to combat the pandemic – especially here in the United States – has been the opposite of what would’ve been recommended, had all of the information been publicly known in early 2020.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359855384_The_Myth_of_the_Blind_Watchmaker
https://twitter.com/CharlesRixey/status/1513000646311649282
The big problem is, if they achieve zero Covid (even if they have to lie about it) other countries will think they can achieve it using the same methods. That really can’t happen!
If Michael P. Senger is right (see Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World) then the whole ‘pandemic’ was a plot to undermine western values, such as free speech, an independent judiciary, a free internet, and so on. It is a matter of record that Jimping sees these as the biggest threat to Chinese socialism. He makes a compelling case. His book was written prior to the recent crackdown but if you follow the logic through, perhaps this is Xi’s attempt to re-boot the pandemic. It must have been upsetting that everything was starting to go back to normal. I stress that this is my interpretation, not Senger’s but it seems as likely as any other theory to me, once you have eliminated the highly improbable theory that they are trying to eliminate SARS-CoV-2.
Yes I agree it’s more plausible than the idea they are trying to suppress an almost virus they could simply ignore (as they have been for the best part of two years) We need to better understand the relationship between these power blocs and financial and corporate America. There are just so many criminals at work right now it makes your head spin!
This ^^^^^^ !!!!!!!
The great myth that we little people can do anything about great power by understanding it.
We can’t, it’s impossible, which is why governments occupy our minds with the possibility that we can. It distracts us from actually doing something about the shit we’re in by revolting against our locally elected representatives and forcing then to take responsibility for their decisions.
Local elections?
Bah! A merry go round of unaccountable cronies bleeding us dry whilst they pretend to represent views different from one another.
My MP in dartford, Gareth Johnson crows on his website of his success in having a Yellow box junction, and camera’s located at a notorious roundabout over the M25 – after years of trying.
A Yellow box junction!!! The fact the problem hasn’t changed in the 30 years I’ve lived here doesn’t seem to occur to him. For some obscure reason, the camera’s are a first at a roundabout……….???
He has also refused to discuss the most important threat to humanity ever, climate change, after I sent him a perfectly civil letter. He didn’t answer it of course, he passed it onto some spotty school leaver in Westminster who’s reply was a badly photocopied, pro forma… Read more »
China Russia and Israel all work together in a big way. Israel is home to many non-Jewish Russians who obtain Israeli passports and gain the full benefits of that such as unfettered access to the US and UK. The USSR and Israel are joined since birth. Perfect for infiltration of the UK and US by Russia. Israel is a technology juggernaut which is spawning the majoirty of this wonderful new “tech” like 5G and SMART CITIES which are set to improve our lives so much, only catch being that it involves the complete elimination of freedom and nonstop exposure to an off the charts level of nefarious wireless radiation and surveillance, to become a reality. But well all be safe thanks to all the super intensive surveillance AND Covid free, so its definitely worth sacrificing all our freedom for and the traitors in GOVUK are fully signed up to this agenda. This stretches as far as opposition party LABOURCAMP pondlife like ANDY BURNHAM – A SMART CITIES STOOGE. The plan is to have us living in a designed in Israel, Made In China dystopia, where your life can be swithced on and off at the flick of a switch. Thats… Read more »
You can pin this on communism and point to the Four Pests lunacy. However, I subscribe more to the idea that this is simply a personal test of power for Winnie the Flu.
Emperor Xi has decreed that Zero Coofs is achievable, and therefore Zero Coofs will be declared to have been achieved, even if he has to starve to death all those who defy him by testing positive.
Zero Coofs cannot go until Xi goes, and Xi will not go as long as he can show that he retains the influence to enforce the Zero Coofs policy. And around and around we go.
Everybody involved must know that it’s insanity. The point is that they will not dare to say so, or to demur.
It’s just an exercise in raw power. The only life that Flu Bear cares about is his own, and he will sacrifice as many peasants as necessary in order to preserve it.
I winder what it takes for one and a half billion people to revolt?
We might find out.
Even if they succeed in reaching Zero Covid, it would mean that China could never again allow foreigners to enter the country, or Chinese people to travel abroad. Xi has really got himself in a hole here.
A bunker, perhaps.
I suspect his lifetime reign will be subject to an abruptly terminated life.
I agree. He has got himself into a hole with no way out. He is in serious trouble.
Mao’s Great Leap Forward remerges.
‘It’s for your own good.’
Ha! Ha! Ha!
This is communism in action, an ideology that denies man has a mind and suffers the consequences when it’s implemented.
What’s not so funny is that so many in the West copied this moronic mediaeval superstition.
It’s entirely possible the CCP doesn’t have some grand strategy and is simply insane. Communists have a pretty impressive track record in that department after all.
Well, communism is faith in the omnipotent state so this is entirely consistent with that.
Indeed. “The last one wasn’t proper lockdown, it’ll work this time comrade! Onward!”
Nobody with the least intelligence believes that this is anything whatever to do with the absurdity of “Zero Covid”
Has Gates tipped them off to prepare for his next planned ‘Pandemic’ when his WHO can force lockdowns on the whole world – Johnson can’t wait to sign us up to the WHO Power Grab which will give them control and authority to “Mandate” UK “Health” ( mass forced vaccination) Policy”!
It is time few more started to wake up!
Never mind the crimes against Humanity in China and those brutalised Chinese!
We are supposed to be obsessing over PutinManBad in Ukraine and Plucky™️ Ukrainians to whom BoJo-the-hut keeps sending lots of our money we don’t have, whilst British folk can’t afford to pay their energy bills or eat.
And the US who have similar problems to our own (California are going to have 2 – 3 hour blackouts ‘coz they haven’t got enough ‘leccie) are sending $40 billion to Ukraine. Quite obviously, Senile Joe is enjoying poking the bear.
It’s an ill-wind…
What China – thank you – is demonstrating beyond any doubt is even with the strictest lockdown nonsense and vaccination up to the eyeballs, viruses cannot be controlled according to the whim of the idiots in charge.
This is ammunition against those who still clamour for restrictions, because if what the Chinese are doing doesn’t work, nothing will.
“Those who go to be tested decide nothing. Those who count the PCR-positives decide everything”
As Josef Stalin might have said.
Devi would agree…
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2021/01/devi-sridhar-uk-needs-zero-covid-strategy-prevent-endless-lockdowns
“Devi Sridhar: The UK needs a zero-Covid strategy to prevent endless lockdowns
To avoid restrictions next winter, the UK must seek to eliminate the virus, not merely suppress it, argues the Edinburgh professor of global public health.”
The war on COVID will be as successful as the war on drugs.
Of course an unwinnable war is good news for “public health experts” people seeking a lifelong gravy train.
The UK needs punches from Frank Bruno to prevent injuries.
The WHO Pandemic Treaty – An MP’s Response
https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/the-who-pandemic-treaty-an-mps-response/
(Adam James Harold Holloway is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham since 2005.)
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Many years ago (probably around the turn of the millenium in fact) I recall reading an article once about how a growing economy and free trade will be the foundation in China’s transformation away from a repressive communist regime and into a more free, open and wealthier nation with maybe even a democracy with free and fair elections – in fact the article was quite certain that China would become a democracy within the next decade or two due to a younger generation who were more attached to western ways than the old guard communist functionaries – but recent developments in Shanghai show just how fragile that foundation always was and how rapidly a totalitarian regime can quickly revert back to its old tyrannical ways.
Once you abandon all logic or rational behaviour, anything goes.
So yeah, let’s pretend the problem is that 10% haven’t been “vaccinated” and that this is all being done to protect the 62% supposedly more vulnerable because they are “unvaccinated”.
At least there is a certain consistency to the madness.